Chase The Kangaroo

Roosevelt poses on a 1903 trip to Yosemite with naturalist John Muir. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt " I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. " ~Theodore Roosevelt I've always been a fan of Theodore Roosevelt.  If you asked me what it was based on, I would have to confess that it was all based on hear-say, so to speak.  Other than reading his "Man in the Arena" speech, I only have tidbits of school history and what I've gleaned from articles and common knowledge.  But the more I discover, the more I'm intrigued. To officially wet my appetite of my intrigue of Theodore Roosevelt, I picked up a copy of,  The Ris...